ANOTHER TRUNK TRAGEDY.

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3

ANOTHER TRUNK TRAGEDY.

A (Per 6.5. Sierra at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Ma rah 26. A dreadful murder committed at •Stockton, California, on March 24th, recalls the Maxwell ca.se, familiar to Australians. The lato evenr, liko tlk- former case, was a. trunk mystery. On Saturday evening a. new trunk, standing on the platform of the Southern Pacilic depot at .Stockton, was discovered to eontain tli e body of a man. Later it developed that the victim wn.s Albert N. Mclvor, a inillman, employed in a mine near Jamestown. The man had been murdered by a woman whom lie believed to be his wife. This woman, Mrs Lara ux, was arrested at a near-by town eonie 48 hours after the discovery of the murder. She is a woman of ordinary appearance, and raised in a small town of California, and known to the police of San Fraheisco, though she had never been connected with any crime. After her arrest, Mrs Laroux became very talkative, telling/ tliree or four different stories of the murder. It now appears she gave opium in whiskey. The man ; was already drunk, and it in supposed she waited until lie was in a deep stupor. She then weut out and bought a trunk and a rope. She placed the trunk be- } side the bed, and succeeded in getting the man, not yet dead, into it. Site closed the trunk, but could. not rope it. The man apparently died of suffocation after lie was placed in the trunk.. The woman, called an expressman, and had him place tlie rope on the trunk and carry it to th e station. She intended checking the trunk to some distant point, but became frightened and left it. She took a train for San Francisco, where sho remained one night. On Monday slie started to Jackson to visit her mother, and was arrested as described. Tine object of the murder was* robbery.